Blue Haven: Script
A constant struggle for sanity
Cast List:
Harry: Luke
Stanislav: Graham Wilde
Party Officials:
Psychiatrist: Paul Green
Army Guard: Colin Spurling
Extras: Jack, Matthew
Scene 1, interior.
Party Demonstration:
Union Jack ripped down and replaced with Party Emblem. Fast cutting. A hand reaches towards the Union Flag poster and quickly rips it down and replaces it with ECP Flag poster.
Scene 2, interior, dance studio possibilty.
Press conference:
Journalists with paper and pens, microphones and Dictaphones sit waiting in expectation to what Stanislav has to say after his glorious (yet illigitamate) rise to power. Questions are asked about why such a small party have been elected. Cameras flash on the backdrop behind them with the Flag of the Party behind.
Journalist 1: How has the ECP won when it is obviously such a small party?
Journalist 2: There have been allogations of vote rigging what do you have to say about this?
Journalist 3: What are going to be your policies on Human Rights?
Stanislav: (very powerfully) No questions!
The Institute
Scene 3, interior, plain room with a desk, and papers.
Shots of a psychiatrist sitting behind a desk, with harry slumped sitting in a chair opposite. The psychitrist is looking very forward and intimidating.
Paul: You’re ill Harry. You think you’re a freedom fighter but you’re just a paranoid skitsophrenic. I think we need to up your dose of Largactil. We need to fix you Harry. Recovery is a long road to go down. Sanity may come. Here at Blue Haven, we can get you there. We’re here to help you Harry. (Dialogue to be dubbed over trailer.)
Scene 4, interior, corridors.
Guard patroling corridors at night. (Ask Colin about using him and his army uniform).
Scene 5, interior, plain room, (same as scene 3)
Harry is sat in a chair tied up, the psychiatrist and the guard are standing over him, interrogating him, guard is shouting abuse, and psychiatrist is examining him, talking to him, telling him he is insane, kicking and flailing on the chair harry falls over and gets dragged up and taken to solitary.
Paul: What are we going to do with you harry?
Harry: There’s nothing wrong with me!
Paul: Take him to The Cage.
Guard: Ahh, The Cage, that’ll fuckin’ sort you out, state hatin’ piece of shit. (said dragging harry to his feet and forcing him forward)
Scene 6, interior follow exterior.
Harry is put in solitary confinement by the Guard forcefully as psychiartrist looks over. (Use the cage outside the side entrance of music tech, initial film taken in daylight, then night shots of him in the cage by himself).
(Cut between cage and chair room very fast cuts)
Scene 7, interior, in The Cage, dusk.
Harry is sat in a dim room on the floor with knees up to his chest crossed, and arms wrapped round the top of his knees, with his head down. Camera zoom in. Harry lifts his head looking very blank and sad.
Narration: RNC Productions Presents, a film by Dave Knowles, starring Luke Mitchell, Paul Green and Colin Spurling. Blue Haven. A constant struggle for sanity. In Cinemas, October 1st.
2 comments:
An effective working script. A lot depends now on the pace of the cutting, framing of close-ups and mise-en-scene, making good use of our institutional setting. The various film & TV treatments of Orwell's 1984 are a good model. also Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
The credits are normally done via the titling software, with maybe the tag line done as a VO.
Oh, and spelling!
Illegitimate! schizophrenic!
Props: rope or handcuffs for Harry? I'd like to get hold of a hypodermic but the college nurse might get the wrong idea...
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